These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Deuteronomy 17
Tanakh 20 verses
- 1 Thou shalt not unto thy an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, even any evil thing; for that is an abomination unto thy .
- 2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which thy giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of thy , in transgressing His ,
- 3 and hath gone and served other Elohims, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of , which I have commanded not;
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and it be told thee, and thou it, then shalt thou inquire diligently, and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in ;
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- 5 then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who have done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man or the woman; and thou shalt stone them with stones, that they die.
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At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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- 7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
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If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between and , between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which thy shall choose.
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And thou shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days; and thou shalt inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment.
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And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee.
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- 11 According to the which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
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And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the that standeth to minister there before thy , or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt exterminate the evil from .
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Deuteronomy 13:5 Numbers 15:30 Matthew 10:14 1 Thessalonians 4:8 1 Timothy 5:20 Ezra 10:8 Deuteronomy 10:8 Deuteronomy 17:7 Hosea 4:4 Deuteronomy 18:5 Hebrews 10:26-29 Deuteronomy 18:7 Deuteronomy 18:20 Luke 10:16 1 Thessalonians 4:2 Psalm 19:13 John 20:23 Jeremiah 25:3-14 John 12:48 Proverbs 21:11 Deuteronomy 13:11 -
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And all the people shall , and , and do no more presumptuously.
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- 14 When thou art come unto the land which thy giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein; and shalt say: ‘I will set a over me, like all the nations that are round about me’;
- 15 thou shalt in any wise set him over thee, whom thy shall choose; one from among thy brethren shalt thou set over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.
- 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to , to the end that he should multiply horses; forasmuch as hath said unto you: ‘Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.’
- 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his , that he shall write him a copy of this in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
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And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to his , to keep all the words of this and these statutes, to do them;
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that his be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the , to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his , he and his children, in the midst of .
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Deuteronomy 5:32 1 Kings 15:5 Deuteronomy 17:11 Daniel 5:20-23 Psalm 131:1-2 1 Samuel 15:23 2 Chronicles 33:12 2 Corinthians 12:7 2 Chronicles 34:27 2 Kings 14:10 Ecclesiastes 8:13 Deuteronomy 8:2 Proverbs 27:24 Proverbs 10:27 2 Kings 10:30 2 Chronicles 32:25-26 1 Kings 11:36 Deuteronomy 12:28 2 Chronicles 33:23 Psalm 19:11 2 Chronicles 25:19 1 Kings 11:12-13 2 Chronicles 26:16 Psalm 132:12 1 Kings 11:34 Deuteronomy 12:25 Isaiah 2:12 2 Chronicles 33:19 1 Peter 5:5 Deuteronomy 8:13-14 Deuteronomy 12:32 1 Samuel 13:13-14 Deuteronomy 4:2 Habakkuk 2:4